end of an online conversation one day:- ----------------------------------------------- a: It hurts to see you with him, and you know it. b: For fuck sake, i'm happy with him, why can't you be happy for me? a: I just cant stand seeing you with him, or you always talking about him. b: Why? Why can't you fucking be happy for me? a: Because i love you... [b does not reply] a: ... [still no reply] [A goes offline. B sits in silence, not talking to anyone else online] Next day:- ------------- [B is online, being friendly towards all her friends. A comes online, B ignores him until he starts the conversation. B answers with short replies.] a: hey b: hi a: you ok? b: yup a: ... a: you thought about what i said yesterday? b: yup a: ...and? b: what? a: nothing, forget it. b: fine [A goes offline, B goes back to talking to friends.] The course of the next few weeks:- ------------------------------------------- *A sits quietly in his room weeping every night, B goes out with her bf. *Every conversation between A and B goes the way the last one shown above does, A being friendly, B ignoring him and trying to forget all about what he said. *The friendship between them fades and dies. *A eventually kills himself because he fucked up the friendship. *B trys to forget about A and doesn't even go to the funeral because she doesn't want anything to do with him. Morals of the story:- ------------------------- *Those three simple words, 'i love you' can fuck up a friendship more then anything. *People never consider what their actions could cause. End notes:- -------------- * Any referance to an actual conversation is purely coincidental * This is a fictional story, and because of that the characters do not have names. The reader can give them any names they like. The bad guy/girl? ---------------------- B is not meant to come out of this as a bad person. If this is how it seems, i apoligise, this conversation is not meant to be sexist in any way. A is just as bad, if not worse. For example, if A could have kept his mouth shut in the first place, it never would have happened. And although B pushes him away in the next conversation, A is overly friendly, and is pretty much asking to be pushed away. And in the end, A does something incredibly stupid instead of sitting down with B, in person, and talking the whole thing over rationally. A kept trying to be friendly, a little too friendly, and B kept pushing him away because of this. B wasn't at the funeral because by the time A killed himself, B was fed up with A's constant behavior. This isn't to say B wasn't wrong in how she behaved, more to say neither of them acted in a rational way.